Monkey Business
Next Monday begins the Year of the Monkey in Chinese New Year. This recurs every 12 years. Last Year of the Monkey was in 2004.
I checked back to how the S&P 500 did in 2004 to see …
Silver White Winters That Melt Into Spring
When the dog bites, when the bee stings
When I'm feeling sad
I simply remember my favorite things…
First, thanks to my assistant Jonathan Griffin, for writing the daily in my absence.
Secondly, …
Why the GDP matters
**Tonight’s Commentary was written by Jonathan Griffin Assistant Director of Trading Education and research.
The US GDP expanded at the lower rate in Q4 than in any other quarter of 2015. The GDP expanded at a …
Can FB save the bulls?
**Tonight’s Commentary was written by Jonathan Griffin Assistant Director of Trading Education and research.
Now that earnings season is back in full swing, we have to be extra careful in our trading as the markets …
Only the worst weakest Family Member rallied.
**Tonight’s Commentary was written by Jonathan Griffin Assistant Director of Trading Education and research.
We all waited with our eyes glued to the screens for the FOMC rate decision during Wednesday’s action. Would …
Monkey See, Monkey Do!
After my rendition of “Straighten Up and Fly Right” where the monkey (market) choked (stopped) the buzzard (the selloff), was Tuesday payday?
TLTs, the Interest Rate ETF rose (meaning yields declined) yet again. With the Federal …
“Straighten Up and Fly Right!”
I can’t think of any song title more perfect to describe the current sentiment of investors. Furthermore, the first line of the song (written by Nat King Cole) is:
“The buzzard took a monkey for …
China, Interest Rates and Oil, Oh My!
All we have as traders are our skills and discipline. Some have more skill and less discipline. Others have more discipline and less skill.
Regardless, what virtually none of us have (I say …
Was today’s action “Journey of the Sorcerer” or the “Best of My Love”?
Not only has my Economic Modern Family been hit with a weak stock market environment, they’ve also lost not one but two music icons.
After the sad …
This “Too” Shall Pass.
Too, one of my favorite homonyms, is a word I see too often on Twitter. Too has two meanings.
Adverb-
1.to a higher degree than is desirable, permissible, or possible; excessively
“The market …